The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
Raphael · 1514
Why it's great
In 452 Pope Leo I met Attila the Hun and, according to the story, persuaded him to turn his army back from Rome. Raphael painted the legend in the Vatican in 1514, with the apostles Peter and Paul appearing in the sky.
🏛️ Part of history
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire (312–476) — In 452 Pope Leo I met Attila the Hun and, according to the story, persuaded him to turn his army back from Rome.
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Raphael was an Italian painter born in Urbino in 1483. He worked in Florence and then in Rome, where he painted the Vatican's famous rooms, and with Leonardo and Michelangelo he is counted among the three giants of the High Renaissance. He died in Rome in 1520 at the age of only 37.
